“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
— Sir Isaac Newton

* I’m very excited for my friend Therese Borchard — her excellent book, Beyond Blue: Surviving Depression & Anxiety and Making the Most of Bad Genes, is about to hit the shelves. I met Therese online through her highly regarded Beliefnet blog, Beyond Blue (“a spiritual journey to mental health”), and when she came to New York City, we actually got to meet in person. I read an advance copy of her book, and it’s extraordinary. It’s an honest discussion of what she’s gone through — manic-depression, alcoholism, plus some other challenges — but Therese manages to be funny even while she’s discussing all this and how she dealt with it.

* If you’re in a happiness-project group, I would SO appreciate it if you’d take a few moments to comment about your experience here. Thanks very much!

* Interested in starting your own happiness project? If you’d like to take a look at my personal Resolutions Chart, for inspiration, just email me at grubin, then the “at” sign, then gretchenrubin dot com. (Sorry about writing it in that roundabout way; I’m trying to thwart spammers.) Just write “Resolutions Chart” in the subject line.

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Wow…I didn’t know that Sir Isaac was that good looking! Perhaps some artistic license but still…this cheered me up today.

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Wifsie

The happiness project is helping. A lot. It’s a great kinfd of help: the one that shows people how to help themselves. The kind that can never be taken away. That’s cool!

jack3131

Excellent quote from Sir Newton, it was very inspiring. I really would like to get a copy of your resolutions chart, I have been wanting something along those lines for quite a while now. I will send you an email.

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Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin
is one of the most thought-provoking and influential writers on habits and happiness. Her next book, Better than Before, is about how we change our habits. Her books The Happiness Project and Happier at Home were both instant New York Times bestsellers, and The Happiness Project spent more than two years on the bestseller list, including at #1. Her books have sold more than two million copies, in 30 languages. Here, she writes about her adventures as she test-drives ideas from contemporary science and ancient wisdom about building good habits and a happier life.

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